lachrymogenic

Caption: Causing tears or weeping. After the upcoming election, one side or the other will experience this.

Caption Photo: h/t Claudio – he lived and died like a rat.

JERUSALEM — Israeli forces in Gaza killed Hamas’ top leader Yahya Sinwar, a chief architect of last year’s attack on Israel that sparked the war, the military said Thursday. Troops appeared to have run across him in a battle, only to discover afterwards that a body in the rubble was the man Israel has hunted for more than a year.

Sinwar has topped Israel’s most wanted list since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war just over a year ago, and his killing strikes a powerful blow to the militant group. There was no immediate confirmation from Hamas of his death.

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What a Scammer

Sharif El-Mekki envisions a world where ‘all black students are taught by same-race teachers.’ He is backed by the Gates Foundation, NBC Universal, Nike, and the Bezos Family Foundation.

“Sharif El-Mekki is an adviser to Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro. He also supports school segregation, is a member of the Black Panther Party with family ties to Iran, and runs a nonprofit that has raked in nearly $20 million in donations from the government and nonprofits, including the Gates Foundation.

El-Mekki, a former middle and high school teacher and principal, founded the Center for Black Educator Development (CBED) in 2019. The organization defines its vision as “a world where. . . high-quality, same-race teachers teach all black students” and where “all teachers demonstrate high levels of expertise in anti-racist mindsets.”

CBED argues that employing black teachers to educate black students increases educational outcomes. Since its founding, CBED has trained thousands of teachers across the U.S. in “education activism,” urging a “commitment to liberation education from the racism inherent in America’s institutions, including our schools.”

A CBED information packet titled “The Anti-Racist Guide to Teacher Retention” developed with the Pennsylvania Department of Education, defines education as “a political act” that “can upend white supremacy and a racist history of using education as an oppressive social force.” “Every lesson plan is a political document, and every classroom interaction a political statement,” the guide reads.

El-Mekki’s nonprofit boasts more than $19.5 million in assets, boosted by funders including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which donated over $1.4 million between 2020 and 2021, and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, which gave over $1.1 million in 2022, according to public tax filings.

Other backers include NBC Universal, Nike, the Bezos Family Foundation, the University of Pennsylvania School of Education, and dozens more. In 2023 alone, CBED trained more than 1,700 educators.

In their most recent tax filing, 2023, El-Mekki drew a salary of $233,410 from the organization.”

Bullet Points:

** Among the deep state’s fears is the one that President Trump will use America’s soft power to achieve goals without relying on bombs, missiles, and the blood of Marines. The deep state’s puppets try to use soft power. Look at Biden’s clumsy attempt to use economic sanctions against Russia to stop its war with Ukraine. The Russian economy has never been dependent on the USA. The way to bring a ceasefire is to cut off aid to Ukraine, but that would put too many children and stepchildren of DC politicians out of work.

** The original carrot, grown more than 5,000 years ago in Persia and Afghanistan, was not orange but purple, white, or yellow. Dutch farmers developed its signature orange color in the 17th century as a tribute to the House of Orange. Before that, carrots were used more for their leaves and seeds than their root, which had a bitter taste.

** “The spirit that produced the war in the 1860s and lasting division in the 1960s is abroad again. A great secession of the heart is underway.” -Pat Buchanan.

** “I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000, and 11 of that came from selling other players’ equipment.” – Bob Uecker With Buck Rogers (MLB history)

In Lebanon

In a statement that should have received more attention, Lebanon’s prime minister recently said that the country is ready to implement UN Security Council resolutions that would end Hezbollah as an armed force. This reflects Israel’s success in its offensive against the Iran-backed group after a year in which it absorbed countless Hezbollah rocket attacks.

The world should support this wholeheartedly and help. Instead, Pedo Joe Biden’s regime seems fixated on avoiding “escalation.” And President Emanuel Macron of France, whose country was the colonial master in Lebanon and thus should know better what goes on there, chose to call for a cease-fire last week hypocritically. These positions appear to have enormous public support, at least among younger people and on social media.

So, the world needs to be reminded of a fundamental truth: Hezbollah is the enemy of Lebanon. Its defeat would be a huge favor to the Lebanese, and to a functioning world. Whereas the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is complex overall and bears some moral ambiguity, Israel is completely in the right in its campaign against Hezbollah.